Breakout Coin (BRK) is a product of Breakout Gaming which is a new, globally accessible online gaming entertainment company that plans to provide poker, sports wagering, casino games, fantasy sports, and other popular gaming options. The original currency, Breakout Coin, was later integrated into a unique multi-currency wallet system called "Breakout Chain". While Breakout Coin (BRK) remains the principal currency for Breakout Gaming, there are also Breakout Stake (BRX) and Sister Coin (SIS) which serve to secure the ledger through a combined proof-of-stake (PoS) and proof-of-work (PoW) model. The PoS system uses Breakout Stake as the stake, minting Breakout Coin. As such, the Breakout Stake money supply will never increase, whereas the Breakout Coin money supply increases at a rate of approximately 5% per year. Breakout Chain’s PoW system produces Sister Coin as an incentive to miners. Original announcement.

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BitKey is a FREE, Debian-based live Linux distribution designed for Bitcoin users; it comes with specialist utilities to perform highly secure air-gapped Bitcoin transactions. It contains a swiss army knife of handy Bitcoin tools that support a wide range of usage models, including a few very secure ones which would otherwise be difficult to perform. The system boots into one of the three available modes: "cold-offline" - for creating a wallet and signing transactions; "cold-online" - for watching the wallet and preparing transactions; "hot-online" - standard usage but less secure as the private keys are known to the computer which is connected to the internet.

The genesis block is the first block of a blockchain, a cryptocurrency's ledger of transactions. It is assigned the value of 0. The genesis block may contain a text message written by the developer of the software; for example Bitcoin's genesis block famously includes a variable called "coinbase" which reads (in encrypted form): "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks". This refers to a newspaper headline, published on the day of Bitcoin's launch, revealing Satoshi Nakamoto's indignation over the way politicians handled the financial crisis that engulfed much of the banking and financial world at the time.

Luke Champine has announced the release of Sia (SC) 1.3.3, a minor point release of the software application that powers Sia's decentralised storage service which uses the proof-of-work Siacoin cryptocurrency to reward users providing hard disk capacity: "Sia v1.3.3. This is a patch release that adds functionality to the renter and improves its performance. @ChrisSchinnerl and our new employee @MSevey implemented HTTP file streaming, allowing you to stream videos and other content directly from Sia hosts. They also added rate limiting, so you can prevent Sia from hogging all your bandwidth. @ChrisSchinnerl also moved contract data out of RAM and fixed a memory leak, resulting in greatly reduced memory usage. And as always, we made tons of smaller bug fixes. Contributor @nielscastien added a new API endpoint for hosts that reports information about contracts formed with renters. I'm sure this will be widely appreciated by users who want more insight into their host's behavior." Here are the brief release notes as published on the project's GitHub pages. Download: Sia-UI-v1.3.3-linux-x64.zip (56.9MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.3.3-osx-x64.zip (141MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.3.3-win32-x64.zip (59.3MB, signature). Here is the source code links: v1.3.3.tar.gz (2.34MB).

Sia is an open-source, decentralised storage platform where users contribute disk storage from their computers to form a decentralized network. This disk storage space is available for rent. The Sia software provides a Bitcoin-like blockchain with smart contracts and strong encryption which ensures secure, reliable and private decentralised storage. As a payment medium the network uses Siacoin (SC), a proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrency, which can be generated by standard PoW mining (using the BLAKE hashing algorithm) or it can be purchased on a cryptocurrency exchange. Original announcement.

Luke Champine has announced the release of Sia (SC) 1.3.1, an updated version of the software powering Sia's decentralised storage platform and its proof-of-work Siacoin (SC) cryptocurrency: "This release is the culmination of nearly five months of steady work, with contributions from 19 developers. For this release, we primarily focused on improving the stability and performance of the renter. To achieve this, we designed and implemented a new write-ahead log package, which is leveraged to create a new on-disk format for file contracts. This allows contracts to be updated efficiently while maintaining ACID properties, like a database. We also reworked much of the upload code, resulting in more throughput and more reliable file repairs. And as always, we made tons of bug fixes and performance improvements throughout the code base, affecting nearly every file in the project. Importantly, this release contains a fix for the new difficulty algorithm that was introduced in v1.3.0." See the release notes for more information. Download: Sia-UI-v1.3.1-linux-x64.zip (55.7MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.3.1-osx-x64.zip (140MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.3.1-win32-x64.zip (58.1MB, signature). The source code is also ready: v1.3.1.tar.gz (2.17MB).

Luke Champine has announced the release of Sia (SC) 1.3.0, an updated build of the software that powers Sia's decentralised storage platform using the proof-of-work (BLAKE) Siacoin (SC) cryptocurrency: "Sia v1.3.0. This is a minor release that introduces a number of long-awaited features. The most prominent features are remote file repair and wallet look-ahead. Remote file repair allows Sia to automatically repair your files even after the original file data has been deleted from your machine. It works by downloading data from hosts, expanding it to the desired redundancy, and re-uploading the redundant pieces to other hosts. This is a crucial feature for Sia because hosts that go offline or fail to meet quality requirements must be replaced. Note that in order for remote file repair to work, the file must report at least 1x redundancy. Wallet look-ahead means that the wallet will pre-generate the next n addresses for its seed, and watch the blockchain for them." Read the rest of the release notes for further details. Download Sia's graphical client from here: Sia-UI-v1.3.0-linux-x64.zip (55.4MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.3.0-osx-x64.zip (140MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.3.0-win32-x64.zip (57.8MB, signature). Sia's latest source code is available from GitHub: v1.3.0.tar.gz (2.14MB).

Luke Champine has announced the release of Sia (SC) 1.2.2, a new version of the project's software application that powers its decentralised storage platform. The software uses the Siacoin cryptocurrency, powered by a proof-of-work (BLAKE) blockchain, to reward users providing their hard disk space for storage. Version 1.2.2 is a bug-fix release: "Sia v1.2.2. This is a patch release that fixes bugs in the new wallet and host. Hosts will now gracefully handle absent storage folders, and wallets will always show the correct balance when loading or recovering seeds. First-time wallet unlock is faster, and memory consumption has been reduced. The renter will also accurately report the redundancy of files, accounting for contracts that have gone offline. This release includes over 2,500 lines of new testing and bug fixes." Here are the brief release notes as published on GitHub. The Sia graphical client is available for Linux, macOS and Windows; download links: Sia-UI-v1.2.2-linux-x64.zip (57.0MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.2.2-osx-x64.zip (141MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.2.2-win32-x64.zip (59.3MB, signature). The source code is also ready: v1.2.2.tar.gz (1.94MB).

Luke Champine has announced the release of Sia (SC) 1.2.0, a software behind the project's decentralised storage platform based on a proof-of-work (BLAKE) blockchain: "Sia v1.2.0. This is a minor release that incorporates major changes to the host and wallet modules. The host's storage backend has been completely rewritten to improve performance and scalability. Administration privileges are also no longer required to be a host on Windows. The wallet has (finally!) moved to an on-disk database, meaning that it will unlock instantly after the database is synced to the blockchain. The wallet also now supports creating a new wallet from an existing seed, and 'sweeping' the coins in an existing seed into another wallet. Finally, addressing a frequent need of new users, the wallet can be recreated with a new seed, meaning users no longer have to manually delete their wallet folder." Read the rest of the release notes for further details. Download Sia's graphical client from GitHub: Sia-UI-v1.2.0-linux-x64.zip (52.7MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.2.0-osx-x64.zip (129MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.2.0-win32-x64.zip (63.1MB, signature). The source code link: v1.2.0.tar.gz (1.93MB).

Sia (SC) is a project developing a decentralised storage platform based on a proof-of-work (BLAKE) blockchain; it rewards those providing hard disk storage with siacoins. An updated version of the Sia software application is now available: "Sia v1.1.1. This is a minor release focusing on the renter and hostdb. The renter would previously slow down considerably after about 100 GB of data had been uploaded, but now will maintain high speeds for much longer than that. While the total amount of data can now easily reach multiple TB, individual files are advised to stay below 100 GB. The hostdb is smarter about scanning and ranking hosts, and you can see more in-depth output using the siac hostdb -v command. Unfortunately, our upgrades to the Renter require a full rescan of the blockchain. As a result, if you are upgrading from an older version, siad may take a long time to load the first time you run it." Continue to the release notes for more information. Here are the links to download Sia's graphical client: Sia-UI-v1.1.1-linux-x64.zip (52.5MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.1.1-osx-x64.zip (129MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.1.1-win32-x64.zip (62.8MB, signature). The source code is also available: v1.1.1.tar.gz (710kB).

Luke Champine has announced the release of Sia (SC) 1.1.0, the latest version of the decentralised storage platform launched in June 2015 and based on a proof-of-work (BLAKE) blockchain: "Sia v1.1.0. This is a minor release that improves renter performance and adds 'defrag' behavior to the wallet. Previously, we have had issues with the wallet accumulating too many small outputs and thus being unable to fund large transactions. This isn't an issue for most users, but it can affect high-volume wallets, notably exchanges. The new wallet will regularly consolidate small outputs into one larger output. Thanks to the new renter algorithm, we are seeing upload and download speeds that saturate most residential connections. This is a huge improvement over the previous algorithm. However, memory usage may be substantially higher than before. We are working to reduce memory usage in the next release without compromising speed." See the release notes for further details. Download the graphical client from GitHub: Sia-UI-v1.1.0-linux-x64.zip (51.5MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.1.0-osx-x64.zip (126MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.1.0-win32-x64.zip (61.5MB, signature). The source code is also ready: v1.1.0.tar.gz (683kB).

Luke Champine has announced the release of Sia (SC) 1.0.4, a new version of the decentralised storage platform where users contribute disk storage in exchange for siacoins. This is the project's first long-term support (LTS) release: "This is the first LTS release of Sia. Please read our LTS page describing how LTS releases of Sia will work. Essentially, Nebulous will backport security fixes and other important bug fixes to the LTS release. This gives developers a stable foundation to build upon. The changes since v1.0.3 are negligible. The main function of this release is to split the LTS release line from the standard release line. This primarily affects the siac update command - if you run an LTS release, siac update will only update to later LTS releases, not standard releases. Conversely, if you run a standard release, siac update will never update to an LTS release, only standard releases." Here are the brief release notes. Download: Sia-UI-v1.0.4-lts-linux-x64.zip (50.4MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.0.4-lts-osx-x64.zip (125MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.0.4-lts-win32-x64.zip (60.4MB, signature). The source code link: lts-v1.0.4.tar.gz (666kB).

Luke Champine has announced the release of Sia (SC) 1.0.3, a new version of the project's decentralised storage platform where users contribute disk storage from their computers and earn siacoins, tokens that can be saved or exchanged for bitcoins on popular exchanges. From the release notes: "Sia 1.0.3. This is a patch release that improves the stability and performance of the renter, in addition to many other minor bug fixes and miscellaneous tweaks. Our goal for this release was to make Sia viable for real-world use, even if only on a small scale. Only time will tell if we achieved that goal, but we are optimistic. Much of the work that went into this release was aided by our new testing framework, the Ant Farm. Our next targeted release is v1.1.0, which will introduce some long-awaited features (such as instant wallet unlocking) as well as considerable performance upgrades for the renter and host." Sia's software clients are available in Sia (command line) or Sia-UI (graphical) variants; download from GitHub: Sia-UI-v1.0.3-linux-x64.zip (51.3MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.0.3-osx-x64.zip (126MB, signature), Sia-UI-v1.0.3-win32-x64.zip (61.4MB, signature). The source code is also ready: v1.0.3.tar.gz (2.05MB).